Those who are familiar with Jane Dougherty’s work will not be disappointed with her new book, Night Horses. The book does not include a biography, acknowledgement, or notes, only splendid poems of dreams, nature, the stars, mythology, and love.
In “Night Mare,” “a slender light stitches the night-field” and “horse and I, longing to make the leap between the stars.” In “Crossing” day turns to night, “stepping softly as a silent deer.” But night is not always peaceful here. In “It came in the night,” “the voice in the night was a wolf-lament” and it “the dark, the voice of howling trees, a river of grief, the wind that blew my dreams away.”
In this 48-page book, I felt love and yearning in the poignant, “For a father poet,” where “in my arms the sea-smoothed branches, bleached pale, the chalk cliffs and the basalt carved by your voice.” I experienced the dying of the light in the loss of an old dog. Most of all, I experienced our existence in the stars in “Nebula,”
"Sometimes, summer nights,
I have to cling to the window frame
To stop myself falling up in the arms of greatness.”
This is a book that will carry you from your bed to the natural world where foxes roam and owls fly, and you can watch the poet “take from their box, a string of pearls, a constellation in a moonless night.” You want to visit this world, don’t you?
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